Sample Sentences for

James Joyce

(editor-reviewed)

At the same time, you could tell people were fascinated—obsessed, in some cases—and so it kept coming up, usually in solemn arguments, a world away from our ones about, say, James Joyce.†  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, 2005

They wouldn't be after me to read books and write long papers on the twins in James Joyce.†  (source) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1971

My original strategy was pathetically derivative, lacking logic and design and substituting for both an amorphous hunger to do for a small Southern city what James Joyce had done in his miraculous microcosm.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

I thought of the people I'd read about—John F. Kennedy, James Joyce, Humphrey Bogart—who went to boarding school, and their adventures—Kennedy, for example, loved pranks.†  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

Where they dress for dinner but all of them have heard about James Joyce.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

Then he spoke of James Joyce.†  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

I was taking one of I hose honors programs that teach you to think independently, and except for a course in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and a seminar in advanced poetry composition, I would spend my whole time writing on some obscure theme in the works of James Joyce.†  (source) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1971

James Joyce, an Irish Catholic, uses biblical parallels with considerable frequency.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

James Joyce?†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

As we now know, James Joyce envisioned every one of the eighteen episodes of the novel as a parallel to some incident or situation in The Odyssey.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Let's look at the easy ones—James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and what we could call the "Intentionalists"—writers who attempt to control every facet of their creative output and who intend virtually every effect in their works.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Not a very Irish name for a young man from Dublin, nor is it the first name he tried for young Stephen, but it's the one James Joyce settled on for A Portrait of the Artist As ali9ung Man (1916).†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003